Re: [pygtk] Unicode String

2004-01-26 Thread Gabriel Ortega
Hello ! I don't know what is the best way to do that. But this piece of code works well for me: assert isinstance(source, str) # 'source' has to be a str try: good_utf8=source.decode('utf8') except ValueError: # source is not utf8-coded good_utf8=source.decode('iso8859-1') # Fallba

[pygtk] Unicode String

2004-01-26 Thread Michel Thadeu
Hi guys! I want to know suggestion on how to convert a string to unicode... The gtk requires unicode strings on the widgets, now either I define the string as u'some string' or I define an attribute enconding (self.enc='iso8859-1') and for each string I use unicode(string, self.enc)... To access t